T'Challa: The Black Panther Appreciation 2024

[Marvell2100]

I guess the better question would be is if what Coates introduced to it actually benefited the franchise or Wakanda as a setting at all.

Good point. The spin-off comics were all failures. The solos following Coates can't go past a year and T'Challa's status gets worse with each new solo.

From King to street-level crime-fighter. And fighting demons along the way although Blade is doing it much better.

[Marvell2100]

In House of M, Shanna was in his harem with Monica Lynn.

I’m surprised no modern writer has brought Malaika back.

Ok, forgot about HoM.

I don't think Malaika was a long term LI though. She was kind of a one-off.

[Username taken]

So did Asgard become a parliament because there was apparently unchecked and blatantly obvious rape and murder happening? With Thor being too busy and when he learns of it basically shrugging his shoulders? All because the writer in question couldn't work his head around Black excellence so he decides to add nearly every racial stereotype to Wakanda? Pushing the idea that even the most advanced nation on earth, the minute they have some setbacks they apparently devolved into complete westernize lensed savagery?

But sure ignore the context and all the damaging imagery Coates put and try and reduce it down to just hating Coates.

Don't feed them.

[KingNomarch]

What’s the status of all of T’Challa’s love interests, beside Storm:

Monica Lynn: dead
Nakia: evil and dead
Shanna: married to Ka-Zar
Malaika: ??
Princess Zanda: still appears sometimes
Nikki Addams: dead

Who else am I missing?

Monica’s death was an AU

I can’t remember if the Dora comic where Nakia died came out before or after the annual where she was alive. Either way I don’t see her coming back.

Malaika can’t be used due to apparent legal issues with Gillis

NuNakia is dead

In Contest of Champions a line of dialogue from Guillotine could potentially imply that she and T’Challa had a thing when they were young since there was a paused before she could him a friend. It could be simply nothing and I’m not expecting marvel to follow up that unless Al Ewing starts writing BP somewhere again since I think he was writing that CoC series.


Shang-Chi sister is in limbo. Although they were never together I will gladly take the sister introduced by Hudlin at this point.

[Ezyo1000]

What’s the status of all of T’Challa’s love interests, beside Storm:

Monica Lynn: dead
Nakia: evil and dead
Shanna: married to Ka-Zar
Malaika: ??
Princess Zanda: still appears sometimes
Nikki Addams: dead

Who else am I missing?

This is why I am Open and hoping Hill actually develops T'Challa and Okoye to have a legitimate relationship and NOT just push Storm. T'Challa needs a break from her

[Pulp Fiction]

Hope the folks at cliffhanger are okay with all these lay offs happening in the video game industry

[Username taken]

The only reason I wanted Nu-Nakia to stay alive was to keep T'Challa away from Storm.

T'Challa's love life has gone inert since he nullified his marriage.

[Username taken]

Hope the folks at cliffhanger are okay with all these lay offs happening in the video game industry

Wait, what happened?

[BlackClaw]

Wait, what happened?

The gaming industry (except Nintendo) is currently doing a lot of layoffs. EA in particular is laying off 670 employees. And to make matters worse they announced they are moving away from development of future licensed IP that they don’t believe will be successful. We can only hope they don’t think Black Panther is one of them.

[Marvell2100]

The only reason I wanted Nu-Nakia to stay alive was to keep T'Challa away from Storm.

T'Challa's love life has gone inert since he nullified his marriage.

Reed married to Sue
Ben married to Alicia
Spidey married once multiple LIs
Tony married once multiple LIs
Sam Wilson currently dating Misty Knight
Steve currently dating Sharon Carter
Scott Summers married/currently dating Jean Grey
Lukr Cage currently married Jessica Jones
T'Challa few LIs, married once, no LI since.

[KingNomarch]

Reed married to Sue
Ben married to Alicia
Spidey married once multiple LIs
Tony married once multiple LIs
Sam Wilson currently dating Misty Knight
Steve currently dating Sharon Carter
Scott Summers married/currently dating Jean Grey
Lukr Cage currently married Jessica Jones
T'Challa few LIs, married once, no LI since.

I think even Miles has more than T’Challa now lol.

[Mantis-Ray]

Reed married to Sue
Ben married to Alicia
Spidey married once multiple LIs
Tony married once multiple LIs
Sam Wilson currently dating Misty Knight
Steve currently dating Sharon Carter
Scott Summers married/currently dating Jean Grey
Lukr Cage currently married Jessica Jones
T'Challa few LIs, married once, no LI since.

There's an irony here that the marriage was derided originally for making Storm a trophy but now its doing more damage to BP and actually holding him back.

Keep in mind over in the Resurrection of Magneto it starts with Storm in bed with the astronaut guy having started a new relationship with him, meanwhile BP can't seem to have a one-night stand with anyone without his ex-wife being brought up.

[Frontier]

And every time they involve Storm with anything Wakanda based it's almost always to her benefit and at the expense of T'Challa.

[Username taken]

And every time they involve Storm with anything Wakanda based it's almost always to her benefit and at the expense of T'Challa.

That's the problem with the relationship.

Even though I found the idea of the pairing to be odd and ill-advised, it could have been ironed out.

[Ezyo1000]

And every time they involve Storm with anything Wakanda based it's almost always to her benefit and at the expense of T'Challa.

It almost feels like some type of twisted revenge for Hudlin pairing them up, as people used to claim at the time T'Challa was using Storms popularity to prop up his book